Lawrenceville man sentenced in child pornography case

By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer
A 32-year-old Lawrenceville man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct and streaming it online., Curtis E. Thompson, 32, of Lawrenceville, was sentenced to the lengthy prison term by U.S. District Court Judge John Michael Vazquez in U.S. District Court in Newark on April 13., Thompson, who uses the aliases of Frank Lucas and CT West, offered a guilty plea to one count of the production of child pornography before Judge Vazquez earlier this month., Thompson admitted in court that from May to September 2015, he used Facebook Messenger and FaceTime on his iPhone to communicate with a minor and that minor’s friend to engage in sexually explicit activity and to either record it or stream it online., Thompson also admitted to offering and making payments to the victim for recording and streaming the sexually explicit conduct., Thompson has been in custody since his arrest on Nov. 10, 2015, according to Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick.